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Naming the Hungers

Naming the Hungers

Zeest Hashmi, Shadab

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $19.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 8, 2026

ISBN10: 1935717316
ISBN13: 9781935717317
Publisher: Kaya Press
Published: Dec 8 2026
Pages: 116
Language: English

Tea--as botanical, fashion and obsession--is the axis around which Zeest Hashmi's drama of empires tangles, constricts and unravels

Published with Kulhar Books.

Set in Silk Road tea rooms underneath the shadows of Orientalist paintings, Shadab Zeest Hashmi's poetry collection Naming the Hungers is an experiment in liquid ekphrasis, utilizing forms such as lyric and the lesser-known qasida against an encyclopedic sojourn into global trade's postcolonial hauntings. The result is a remarkable philosophical examination of received knowledge--whether meted out through the indiscriminate drone strike, Rudyard Kipling's racial animus or Thomas Lipton's plantation land-grabs--and of the mourning that accompanies the present's dragnet on hospitable tomorrows yet unbuilt.

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